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Holy shit, THIIIS. I love DS9 unapologetically, but I also love TOS and TNG and VOY and etc., and I just want to roll my eyes when I visit Reddit and see the 10,000th post saying OMG you guys I just finished watching DS9 and DAE DS9 is a million times better than the bestest show that ever existed? and it has 8000 upvotes and 1200 replies saying OMG I thought I was the only person who felt that way despite the fact that this same exact post gets posted every two days on this sub!. Just shut the fuck up about DS9 for once, Reddit.
It bewilders me that we seem to have entered this era where DS9 is ostensibly the most popular Trek show. But TOS is too old, TNG is lame now because of Picard, and DS9 has a rather diverse cast so even the SJW fags can be happy about that. It seems like the show everyone can agree on. Funny it was so divisive when it first came out too.
 
It bewilders me that we seem to have entered this era where DS9 is ostensibly the most popular Trek show. But TOS is too old, TNG is lame now because of Picard, and DS9 has a rather diverse cast so even the SJW fags can be happy about that. It seems like the show everyone can agree on. Funny it was so divisive when it first came out too.
Or maybe some karma. In his "series overall" review, SFDebris pointed out that DS9 was kind of unfortunate in that it was the trek series that never got to stand on its own. That during it's run time there was also TNG, then the movies, then Voyager, never a moment where there was "just" DS9 so it was always sharing the limelight with other projects.

So maybe... now it's finally getting that time in the sun.
 
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Looking for the TNG episode where spatial anomalies affect the ship, causing involuntary lactation on the lower decks.

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It bewilders me that we seem to have entered this era where DS9 is ostensibly the most popular Trek show.
It's a tough little show.

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It was a failure in some respects and, as Sirtis noted, Gene was ambivalent toward it. But the biggest issue is that it became overrated, just by being compared with anything and everything,
 
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Garak deserved his own show. He's the shadiest and most astute character in all of Star Trek.

Trek really did need more espionage and subterfuge.

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One of the greatest missed opportunities DS9 ever had was not having Garak and Luther Sloan interact even once. An entire episode could be built around just the 2 of them talking.
 
For me it'll always be Voyager. The cast are all great and I don't care if they retread the same stories from TNG, Janeway's great as the insane mary sue captain, it's written like a bad fanfiction. The downside is they couldn't invent any cool new villains and they could've written more episodes dealing with limited supplies, or violating the prime directive to get new parts. But as a monster of the week type show i'll take it over the other treks.
 
The merch of a show about Picard is a borg cube? Seriously? Do they know what's the relationship between Picard and the borg?

(It's kinda cool, though... I could... consider consoom it)

Holy shit, THIIIS. I love DS9 unapologetically, but I also love TOS and TNG and VOY and etc., and I just want to roll my eyes when I visit Reddit and see the 10,000th post saying OMG you guys I just finished watching DS9 and DAE DS9 is a million times better than the bestest show that ever existed? and it has 8000 upvotes and 1200 replies saying OMG I thought I was the only person who felt that way despite the fact that this same exact post gets posted every two days on this sub!. Just shut the fuck up about DS9 for once, Reddit.
DS9 is definitely a good show, but I kinda agree with RLM guys saying it's not what Star Trek is about. A lot of people love it because "muh expectations being subverted" and because "muh gritty reality 3edgy5me."
 
The merch of a show about Picard is a borg cube? Seriously? Do they know what's the relationship between Picard and the borg?

(It's kinda cool, though... I could... consider consoom it)


DS9 is definitely a good show, but I kinda agree with RLM guys saying it's not what Star Trek is about. A lot of people love it because "muh expectations being subverted" and because "muh gritty reality 3edgy5me."
Honestly, I thought it was less "dark and edgy" and more "what happens when you take this optimistic view of a more enlightened humanity and then violently test their principals in a conflict where diplomacy isn't really an option against an enemy willing to cross any line we might set for ourselves."

I mean, as much as people use the "That's not what Star Trek was about!" line, let's not forget that in TOS we were actively at war with 2 other species, the Romulans and Klingons, and routinely had violent encounters with hostile alien life. The Dominion War really isn't much different than the Federation-Klingon war, it just got a hell of a lot more screen time.

In TNG we encountered the Borg, who were more or less ruthless mass murder machines that invade a system and either assimilate the sentient species they find or utterly annihilate them.

Star Trek has never really shied away from the idea that the universe is a scary, dangerous place filled with crazy warlike assholes.

"Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great."

- James T. Kirk
 
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